Grant Headifen

About Grant Headifen

My vision for NauticEd is to provide the highest quality sailing and boating education available - and deliver competence wherever sailors live and go.

Entries by Grant Headifen

New Sailors in production in New Zealand

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New Zealand has long been respected by the world sailing community as producing some of the world’s top sailors. It’s no wonder! Here is a pic I snapped this week while visiting Torbay, New Zealand of our future sailors. The sailing industry is always wondering how to get more people involved in the sport and […]

Students express interest in knocking down the bucket list

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Here is a wonderful email from a NauticEd Student regarding our post on the Heineken Regatta Sailing Adventure. On 1/29/10 1:55 PM, “Ronald”  wrote: Grant, Funny you should ask about my Bucket List. You see, that movie is the reason I now own a beautiful Beneteau 423. I rarely go to movies. I am talking […]

Press Release: NauticEd and Safe Passage Sailing To Provide Sailing Adventures

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NauticEd announced today that it would begin providing sailing adventures to it’s students via an alliance with Safe Passage Sailing, a San Francisco based sailing adventure company. “This provides super exciting sailing adventure events to get our students out on the water and experience the exhilaration that sailing can bring” said Grant Headifen, Educational Director […]

Press Release – Annapolis Bay Charters becomes NauticEd FlagShip Sailing School

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Annapolis Bay Charters becomes NauticEd’s first Flag Ship Practical Sailing School NauticEd announced today that the 30 year old and well respected Charter Sailing Company, Annapolis Bay Charters, would become it’s first Flag Ship Practical Training Sailing School. To date, NauticEd has successfully established itself as The World’s Most Advanced Online Sailing School and provides […]

Sailing Resume – Logbook

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Here is a question posted by Nancy KnudsenEditor Sail-World Cruising. Sail-world is one of the largest and respected online sailing news companies (https://www.sailing-world.com) to NauticEd this week. Followed by our answer. On 1/16/10 6:47 PM, “Nancy Knudsen Cruising Editor Sail-World” <cruisingeditor@sail-world.com> wrote: Hi Grant I have a question about the sailing certification video you have […]

Cool iPhone App

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Along with NauticEd’s iphone app to help sailors keep their logbook current, we’ve discovered a new iphone app which helps sailors identify boats at night from their lights they exhibit. It serves as an excellent and handy vessel light identification chart for sailing at night. The aqualights iphone app is very simple to use. It […]

The NauticEd Sailing Certificate Explained

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Here is an explanation of how your NauticEd Sailing certificate will grow with your education and experience. The Certificate is made up of 3 sections. Completed Courses, Rank and Level achieved and Practical Verification by a sailing school. All registered persons at NauticEd are called students. Every student starts out with a Sailing Certificate. On […]

Sailing Certifications made simple

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The NauticEd Sailing Certification system can be easily explained by the animated infographic below. You will notice that the sailing certification is based on using a combined model of knowledge plus skills plus experience. Together, these lead to competence. At NauticEd, we don’t issue McCertifications of attendance (as you may find elsewhere, and too often […]